Some Steps to Reduce Disk Space on cPanel Server (For VPS/Cloud Clients Only)

1) In a lot of the circumstances, the backup saved within the server causes this heavy disk house utilization. A lot of the cPanel customers will retailer their backups in server itself as a substitute of downloading it to their native machine. You may merely delete your backups from the server utilizing the under script.

# for consumer in `/bin/ls -A /var/cpanel/customers` ; do rm -fv /dwelling/$consumer/backup-*$consumer.tar.gz ; executed

2) As a substitute of deleting the backup from the server you may transfer the backup to a different server.

You may simply transfer the backup file to a different server utilizing instructions scp or rsync. Additionally, you may configure backup in WHM by following the under steps.

1. a) Login to WHM.
2. b) Navigate to “Backup Configuration” beneath Backup part.
3. c) Click on on “Allow” radio button then click on on “Create new vacation spot” button.
4. d) Final it’s worthwhile to fill the vacation spot server particulars and click on “Save Vacation spot” button.
5. e) Lastly, it’s worthwhile to click on “Save Configuration” button to save lots of all modifications.

3) One other technique to clear up the disk house is solely to delete the non permanent recordsdata. Throughout importing recordsdata by way of File Supervisor, cPanel creates a replica of these recordsdata within the tmp folder. You may delete these recordsdata utilizing the under command.

# rm -fv /dwelling/*/tmp/Cpanel_*

4) Eradicating package deal supervisor recordsdata. All file that doesn’t want for YUM repository will clear after working the under command.

# yum clear all

5) Delete some non permanent file that creates when there’s an add fail happen by way of FTP uploads.

That’s when a consumer tried to add recordsdata to the server, attributable to some motive an add fail might happen. Then FTP daemon create a brief file. You may delete the identical from the under instructions.

# find .pureftpd-upload | xargs rm -fv

6) You too can take away unused cPanel from WHM. It’s going to additionally aid you to scale back the disk utilization. It may be executed by following the steps.

1) Login to WHM.

2) Navigate to “Terminate Accounts” From “Account Capabilities” part.

3) Then you may select that undesirable account and click on on “Take away” button.

Or you are able to do the identical from the command line by working the under command.

# /scripts/killacct <consumer>

7) Additionally some circumstances log file will devour giant disk house. A lot of the log recordsdata are saved within the location /var/log. Their measurement and frequency of rotation could also be adjusted by /and so on/logrotate.conf file. You too can allow Log Rotation out of your WHM.

1) Login to WHM.

2) Navigate to “Apache Configuration” beneath “Service Configuration”.

3) Click on on “Log Rotation”.

4) Add verify mark for access_log and error_log.

5) Click on “Save” button.

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